supporting by means of vocational training. There are classes in tailoring, carpentry, gardening, printing and rattan work and also sheltered work- shops for tapestry, knitting of socks and woollen yarn, bead stringing and rattan work. Twenty two former inmates were resettled during the year and are now self-supporting. Particulars of the various categories of inmates and of the vocational training and sheltered workshop activities are at Appendix 18.
72. Arrangements were made for the repatriation of ten distressed British subjects during the year.
73. The World Council of Churches and Catholic Relief Services both assist in the resettlement of displaced persons coming out of China. During the year 2,114 such persons were resettled, most of them in Europe, Australia or South America, the majority being White Russians. Their passages were paid under the joint operation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Inter-governmental Committee for European Migration. The Catholic Relief Services also assisted 472 Chinese to emigrate to other countries, mostly to the United States. Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals Inc. (A.R.C.I.) assisted in the resettlement of 215 Chinese and their families, most of whom went to Formosa or the United States of America.
74. The Hong Kong Council of Social Service has been interesting itself in the problem of indebtedness in resettlement estates, and as a result of the preparatory work done by a sub-committee the Resettle- ment Loans and Savings Association was constituted on 20th March, 1959, with the aim of making loans to residents of the resettlement estates who now often have to borrow money from private money lenders at a highly extortionate rate of interest. Similar work on a smaller scale is already being done by the Family Welfare Society. The Association will have a working capital of about $100,000, of which $90,000 was provided by the Hong Kong Standard and Sing Tao Jih Pao's fund raising drive at Chinese New Year and $10,000 by Church World Service. The Council of Social Service itself has allocated $25,000 to the Association for running expenses.
CHAPTER IX
EMERGENCY RELIEF
75. Whenever persons are made homeless by fires, rainstorms or other disasters they are immediately registered by the staff of the Relief Section for emergency feeding, which consists of two cooked meals a
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